Swimming: Medeiros wins women's 50m backstroke gold on wall

Budapest - Medeiros clocked 27.14 seconds, a new Americas record

Brazil's Etiene Medeiros won the women's 50m backstroke gold at the world championships on Thursday in a desperately tight final which she won on the wall.
Medeiros clocked 27.14 seconds, a new Americas record just 0.08 away from the world record set in 2009, while China's Fu Yuanhui took silver at 0.01 back.
Bulgaria's Aliaksandra Herasimenia earned bronze at just 0.09 behind as all eight swimmers in the final finished within half a second of Medeiros.
Having won silver at the Kazan world championships two years ago, the 26-year-old Medeiros went one better in Budapest having also come within 0.12 of the world record on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Caeleb Dressel won the men's 100m freestyle final.
Dressel touched the wall first at 47.17 seconds with compatriot Nathan Adrian, the 2012 Olympic champion, second at 0.70 back as France's Mehdy Metella earned bronze at 0.72.
"Right now, it's all smiles," said Dressel. "I'll let it sink in a bit, it's my first and last event tonight, so I'm excited.
"Man it's nice to go one-two with Nathan, there's nothing like that Americans on top.
"I just want to do my best each time with I go into the water with the flag on my cap."
The 20-year-old completed his hat-trick of world golds by powering home over the final 50 metres in a commanding display having already been part of the victorious 4x100m freestyle and mixed 4x100m medley relay squads.
Dressel also broke a world record in Budapest by swimming the third leg of the mixed medley relay on Wednesday which lowered the previous mark both in the morning's heats and final.
"I'm on top of the world right now," said Dressel.
"If you had told me this would be my first world title, I would definitely have laughed at you four months ago - I was over three seconds slower," he added.